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## Quick Fixture Toolbar

To show or hide the Quick Fixture toolbar, do one of the following:

- From the Graphic Modes toolbar, select the Quick Fixture Mode icon ().

- Select Operation | Graphic Display Window | Change Screen Mode | Quick Fixture Mode.

When the toolbar appears, the software permanently docks the Quick Fixture toolbar vertically to the right side of the main application window.

The toolbar provides drop-down functionality for some of the buttons. PC-DMIS stores the last selected option for each of these buttons and displays them the next time the software shows the Quick Fixture toolbar:

Many of the buttons on this toolbar are mode buttons. The currently selected mode has a blue highlight.

Drop - This mode drops the selected quick fixture onto whatever object lies below it in the Graphic Display window. If there is nothing in the Z minus direction, then nothing happens. If there is, then the fixture drops down until it touches the object.

Level - This mode takes the normal surface vector of where you just clicked and squares that up with the machine coordinate system.

Rotate - This mode takes the point where you just clicked and drops that invisible point on to the closest edge. It then squares up the vector that is tangent to the curve at the drop point. The rotate is a 2D squaring, looking down the current view normal.

Square - This mode squares up the selected quick fixture so that its axes are parallel to the CAD axes shown by the trihedron.

Delete - This mode deletes the selected quick fixture object.

Link - This enters a grouping mode that groups all on-screen fixture components together so that dragging or rotating one fixture drags or rotates them all together. When it is cleared, you can manipulate the fixture components individually.

Fix in Place - If you have linked fixture components, this fixes in place the location of the selected component in the set of linked components so that it doesn't move. That component remains fixed at its current location, even if you then move other components of the linked set.

Save - This opens a Save As dialog box so you can save any on-screen fixture elements. If you have more than one fixture on the screen, then PC-DMIS saves them all as a single set. Saved fixtures get stored in the expandable USER tree in the Quick Fixture dialog box for later use.

X move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the X axis.

Y move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Y axis.

Z move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Z axis.

XY move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the X and Y axes.

YZ move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Y and Z axes.

ZX move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Z and X axes.

XY rotate - This mode allows rotation only in the XY plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.

YZ rotate - This mode allows rotation only in the YZ plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.

ZX rotate - This mode allows rotation only in the ZX plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.

Position Fixture - This displays the Quick Fixture position dialog box, thereby allowing you to work with CAD features contained on supported fixtures themselves. For more information, see "Using the Quick Fixture Position Dialog Box" located in the "Defining Hardware" chapter.